S.E.MacRae
@semacrae.bsky.social
Digital sociology ECR researching the interplay between education, politics and the digital. Own views, she/her.
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S.E.MacRae
@semacrae.bsky.social
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Introduction to special section: the political life of education online | Naomi Barnes
Just published online!
A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...
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I have recently been one of the editors led by @drnomyn.bsky.social with Keith Heggart of a special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online". Naomi has written a great post here about the project and the other papers 1/7
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November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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I suspect the main reason that he’s smiling in this cover shoot is that—tragically—he is having huge success in dismantling the US public health system & rolling back vaccines, so vaccine-preventable diseases are surging, which is the world he wants
Also: @theatlantic.com gave him GREAT PR here 😢
Also: @theatlantic.com gave him GREAT PR here 😢
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I suspect the main reason that he’s smiling in this cover shoot is that—tragically—he is having huge success in dismantling the US public health system & rolling back vaccines, so vaccine-preventable diseases are surging, which is the world he wants
Also: @theatlantic.com gave him GREAT PR here 😢
Also: @theatlantic.com gave him GREAT PR here 😢
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Starmer‘s smugness about the immigration fall from the absence of international student families grates when a) this is a big contributor to the HE crisis and b) thousands who might have had a good time in the UK and left with goodwill are now either resenting us or just not thinking about us at all
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Starmer‘s smugness about the immigration fall from the absence of international student families grates when a) this is a big contributor to the HE crisis and b) thousands who might have had a good time in the UK and left with goodwill are now either resenting us or just not thinking about us at all
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. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
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CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
researchwhisperer.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
Someone said to me recently that calculators represented the same disruption as AI does now. I pointed out the difference was that calculators worked, students were still taught how to count without them, and if they (calculators) had got 2 + 2 wrong you would have got your money back.
Found this absolute graph crime, where the dot that is lowest apparently has 48 % fail rate!?
#graphcrime #dataviz #ai
#graphcrime #dataviz #ai
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Someone said to me recently that calculators represented the same disruption as AI does now. I pointed out the difference was that calculators worked, students were still taught how to count without them, and if they (calculators) had got 2 + 2 wrong you would have got your money back.
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This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Evidence has now emerged of the adverse consequences of the laws banning GAHT for trans youth in both the US and UK. This includes sharp declines in mental health and increased suicide attempts among transgender young people.
t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
t.co/YZaiSgdDAl
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01979-5
t.co
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
This research was published 14 months ago. In *Nature*.
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Three months BEFORE Wes Streeting announced a "permanent ban" on puberty-blockers.
& yesterday, the Tories insisted you don't even need a clinical trial to keep that ban, forever...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
FYI: The #PlatGovNet2025 conference is free and online. You can see the fantastic full programme here: platgov.net/assets/site/...
platgov.net
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨Fantastic online conference here for digital sociologists, platforms studies, STS and surveillance studies folk 🚨
‘This is a sort of late-stage identity politics. A way in which the victim narrative so condemned by critics of “wokeness” remains holy and unquestionable when it is used for a purpose that isn’t equality.’ @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
‘This is a sort of late-stage identity politics. A way in which the victim narrative so condemned by critics of “wokeness” remains holy and unquestionable when it is used for a purpose that isn’t equality.’ @nesrinemalik.bsky.social
'Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
'Hear me sing, "Swim to me, swim to me, let me enfold you:
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
Here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you"'
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The bar was low this week.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The bar was low this week.
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He’s been revealed as an unapologetic racist antisemite at school, he took political & financial advice from Epstein, his partner’s house ownership looks like tax avoidance and his Welsh wingman was working for the Russians. Any chance any other party leader would still be in post with all this?
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
He’s been revealed as an unapologetic racist antisemite at school, he took political & financial advice from Epstein, his partner’s house ownership looks like tax avoidance and his Welsh wingman was working for the Russians. Any chance any other party leader would still be in post with all this?
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
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This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
*over-reliance on earth*
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
*over-reliance on earth*
Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
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@lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social v Lord Nigel Biggar on reparations. Now online open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reparation or Disavowal? The Morals and the Politics of Slavery and Racism
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
@lennyhenryofficial.bsky.social v Lord Nigel Biggar on reparations. Now online open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cute TDoR post. What are you doing for those of us who are alive and struggling?
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Cute TDoR post. What are you doing for those of us who are alive and struggling?
Alongside last night’s result this fantastic track is a much needed remedy to the November darkness.
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
Robyn - Dopamine (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Robyn
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Alongside last night’s result this fantastic track is a much needed remedy to the November darkness.
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
youtu.be/vitil9qMN6A?...
Andy Robertson breaking my heart in this interview
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Andy Robertson breaking my heart in this interview
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Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss
November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss
Current status 🏴
a cartoon character with sweat coming out of his face and a pink tongue .
ALT: a cartoon character with sweat coming out of his face and a pink tongue .
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Current status 🏴
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the one good thing about this guy winning his seat at the last election will be him losing his seat at the next one
Labour MP Luke Akehurst says he "wholeheartedly welcomes" Mahmood's plans "which I believe will tackle a failure by the previous government to maintain one of the most basic fundamental functions of government, which is control of our borders."
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
the one good thing about this guy winning his seat at the last election will be him losing his seat at the next one